ata_dev_pair(9)

💅 ata_dev_pair(9) — Kernel API Manual 💅

okay so bestie, welcome to the Kernel API Manual ✨ this one is short and sweet, no cap. it’s giving “tiny function, very specific job” energy 🎀

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✨ NAME ✨

ata_dev_pair — return other device on cable

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💖 SYNOPSIS 💖

struct ata_device * ata_dev_pair (struct ata_device *adev );

that signature is literally exact, so don’t come for me about the spacing 💅

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🌸 ARGUMENTS 🌸

• adev — device

like, that’s the device you’re handing over. main character argument energy 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so you call this to obtain the other device on the same cable. if none is present, NULL is returned. that’s the whole vibe check 😭✨

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🫶 SEE ALSO 🫶

Kernel file ./drivers/ata/libata-core.c — and the whole function squad, in the original order:

• ata_link_next(9), ata_dev_next(9), ata_dev_phys_link(9), ata_force_cbl(9)
• ata_force_pflags(9), ata_force_link_limits(9), ata_force_xfermask(9), ata_force_quirks(9)
• atapi_cmd_type(9), ata_set_rwcmd_protocol(9), ata_tf_read_block(9), ata_build_rw_tf(9)
• ata_pack_xfermask(9), ata_unpack_xfermask(9), ata_xfer_mask2mode(9), ata_xfer_mode2mask(9)
• ata_xfer_mode2shift(9), ata_mode_string(9), ata_dev_classify(9), ata_id_string(9)
• ata_id_c_string(9), ata_read_native_max_address(9), ata_set_max_sectors(9), ata_hpa_resize(9)
• ata_dump_id(9), ata_id_xfermask(9), ata_exec_internal(9), ata_pio_need_iordy(9)
• ata_pio_mask_no_iordy(9), ata_do_dev_read_id(9), ata_dev_read_id(9), ata_dev_power_set_standby(9)
• ata_dev_power_set_active(9), ata_read_log_page(9), ata_dev_configure(9), ata_cable_40wire(9)
• ata_cable_80wire(9), ata_cable_unknown(9), ata_cable_ignore(9), ata_cable_sata(9)
• sata_print_link_status(9), ata_timing_cycle2mode(9), ata_down_xfermask_limit(9), ata_set_mode(9)
• ata_wait_ready(9), ata_wait_after_reset(9), ata_std_prereset(9), ata_std_postreset(9)
• ata_dev_same_device(9), ata_dev_reread_id(9), ata_dev_revalidate(9), ata_is_40wire(9)
• cable_is_40wire(9), ata_dev_xfermask(9), ata_dev_set_xfermode(9), ata_dev_set_feature(9)
• ata_dev_init_params(9), atapi_check_dma(9), ata_std_qc_defer(9), ata_sg_init(9)
• ata_sg_clean(9), ata_sg_setup(9), swap_buf_le16(9), ata_qc_free(9)
• ata_qc_complete(9), ata_qc_get_active(9), ata_qc_issue(9), ata_phys_link_online(9)
• ata_phys_link_offline(9), ata_link_online(9), ata_link_offline(9), ata_host_suspend(9)
• ata_host_resume(9), ata_dev_init(9), ata_link_init(9), sata_link_init_spd(9)
• ata_port_alloc(9), ata_host_alloc(9), ata_host_alloc_pinfo(9), ata_finalize_port_ops(9)
• ata_host_start(9), ata_host_init(9), ata_host_register(9), ata_host_activate(9)
• ata_dev_free_resources(9), ata_port_detach(9), ata_host_detach(9), ata_pci_remove_one(9)
• ata_platform_remove_one(9), ata_msleep(9), ata_wait_register(9)

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okay that’s the whole page, bestie — source/version vibes: ./drivers/ata; date: October 2026; page: ata_dev_pair(9) — byeee 💅🎀✨